Hello there amazing monks,

I'm having a bit of trouble here. Yesterday i turned in my Perl program assignment, and some one said there was something wrong with it.

My program was supposed to 1. ask a user to type in a number 2. ask user to type in another number. 3.asks user what is to be done add, subtract, divide, multiply. 4. display correct answer on screen. 

  #! /usr/bin/perl -w


print "Type in a number: ";
$x = <>;
chop($x);

print "Type in another number: ";
$y = <>;
chop($y);

print "What would you like done?\n\nYour choice is:\n1) Add\n2) Subtra
+ct\n3) Multiply\n4) Divide\n";
$ask = <>;
chop ($ask);

$z = $x + $y;
if ($ask eq "Add") {print "$x + $y = $z";}

$z = $x - $y;
if ($ask eq "Subtract") { print "$x - $y = $z";}

$z = $x * $y;
if ($ask eq "Multiply") {print "$x * $y = $z";}

$z = $x / $y;
if ($ask eq "Divide") { print "$x / $y = $z";}

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My teacher was unhappy about the $z = $x + $y, and all the variables like that.

May you please give me a bit of help in figuring this out? Can you please point out any mistakes you see?

In reply to how to program my program to add random numbers? by rse2

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